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P. bicalcaratus and thibetanus, Gm. ; VEperonnier, Enl. 492 and 

 493 ; Vieill. Galer. pi. 203 (The Chinquis), is much smaller, and 

 has a short thick tuft on the head ; each of the tarsi of the male is 

 armed with two spurs; the coverts of the tail, which are not so long, 

 are marked with double spots, and those of the scapulars with simple 

 ones, presenting a dappled appearance*. A neighbouring species 

 Polypi, albocellatum, T., is marked with simple blue spots, sur- 

 rounded by a whitish circle. A third, Pol. chalcurum, T., has blue 

 quills, but its coverts are only marked with fawn-coloured and black 

 stripes. 



LoPHOPHORUs, Tern. 



The head surmounted with an aigrette similar to that of the Peacock, 

 and a flat tail, the coverts of which are not prolonged, otherwise resem- 

 bling the preceding birds in the lustre of the metallic colours of the male. 

 The circumference of the eye, and even the cheeks, are naked as in the 

 Pheasants, and the tarsi are armed with strong spurs. A species is 

 known from the mountains of the north of India. 



L.refuhjens, T. ; Phasianus impeyanvs, Lath. Syn. Snpp. pi. 114; 

 il/oraawZ, Sonnin. ; Vieill. Gal. 208. Black; size of a Turkey; the 

 aigrette and dorsal feathers of changeable colours, reflecting tints of 

 gold, copper, sapphire, and emerald; quills of the tail red. The 

 young and the female are brown, dashed with grey and fawn col our 'j*. 



Meleagris:|:, Lin. 



The Turkeys have their head and upper part of the neck invested with 

 a plumeless and papillated skin ; an appendage under the throat, which 

 hangs along the neck, and another conical one on the forehead, which, in 

 the male, when excited by passion, becomes so inflated and long, as to 

 hang over the point of the beak. From the lower part of the neck of the 

 adult male hangs a tuft or tassel of stiff" hairs; the coverts of the tail 

 shorter and stiffer than in the Peacock can be erected and displayed in 

 the same way. The tarsi of the male are armed with weak spurs. But 

 one species was known for a long time. 



Meleagris galh-pavo, L.; Enl. 97- (The Common Turkey). 

 Introduced into Europe from America in the sixteenth century. The 

 size of this noble bird, and the goodness of its flesh, have rendered 

 it extremely common. The Wild Turkey of America, Vieill. Gal. 

 201, is of a greenish-brown, with a copper gloss. A second spe- 

 cies, however, 



M. ocellata, Cuv. Mem. Mus. VI, pi. 1 ; Col. 112, has lately been 



* M.Temminck makes a genus of it by the name of Polyplectrum; Vieillot 

 has changed it into Diplectron. 



t lEW&n appears to have previously known and described it, Hist, anno L. XVI, 

 c. 2. Add the Inphophore, Cuv., Tern. Col. pi. 1, with a pendent crest, black body, 

 and the edges of the dorsal feathers white; discovered by M. Duvaucel. It is, per- 

 haps, the I'ltasianus leucomelanos of Lath. The female is brown, edges of the feathers 

 on the breast whitish. 



X Meleagris is the Greek name of the Guinea-Hen, erroneously applied by Lin- 

 naeus to the Turkey. 



